I brought Lauren upstairs to her room and I laid with her on the bed. She just lost her best friend and she's hurting more than I have ever seen her before.
"Why does this always happen to us?" Lauren spoke up for the first time in about 10 minutes with her face tear-stained.
"What do you mean?" I asked and pulled her hair behind her ear so that I could see her face.
"Why are we the people that have to go through hell? We've been through enough and everything just keeps getting worse. Look at you, for example, you were doing so well. You haven't hurt yourself in almost 9 months. Then you let me ruin that for you. And I feel terrible. It's my fault that I made you feel bad enough that you had to do that." She sat up and grabbed my head so that I was looking straight into her eyes. "I hate seeing you hurt. I don't want to see you go down that path again, babe." She looked at my arms again. "You could've ended up in the hospital. I'm more than thankful that I showed up when I did. Were you going to stop, Camz? If I hadn't shown up?"
I had no choice but to be honest with her.
"Probably not." I said and looked down. She pulled my face up to the position it was in before.
"Exactly. I can't lose you either, Camila. If I lost you I would lose my soul mate. We are supposed to be together forever remember?" She leaned in now and started to whisper. "It's me and you against the world, Camz."
"I'm so sorry. I'm sorry I did what I did. I didn't know how to feel. You know how I am." I whispered back.
"I do know how you are. And I know you're so strong and I believe that you can get through anything." I pulled away a little. I didn't want her to be ashamed of me. "No Camz. Look at me." I did what she said. "You have to promise me you won't do this again." She pointed to my arm fresh with cuts. "I know it won't be easy but look how well you did these past months. I'm so proud of you. You're not the same person as you were when I first met you. You seemed so broken and sad. But now when I look at you, all I see is beauty and happiness."
"It's because of you." I said seriously looking straight at her. "Without you, I probably wouldn't be here. And that's the truth. I gave up before I met you. I was done. I didn't want to live anymore." I wiped away a tear that fell off of Lauren's face. "You helped me live again. You taught me how to love and how to feel loved. You gave me hope for a better life. And now I have one. It's because of you, Lauren."
"If you ever feel like that again, promise me you'll talk to me. Please, Camila I'm begging you. I could never live knowing that I could've prevented something like that. I need you. I need you more than all the money in the world." Lauren said and pulled me into a hug. "I lost my best friend I can't lose the person I'm in love with either." Lauren sniffled and I knew she was crying.
"I'm so sorry, Lauren. I should've been there. I was selfish and I put myself before you. I was angry and sad and I didn't want to be in the same room with you knowing that I lost you." I kissed Lauren's forehead as she cried in my arms. "Before I left, I went to see Ally." Lauren looked up at me now.
"You did?"
"Yeah. I would've hated myself if I didn't say goodbye." She nodded and kept listening. "She told me she would always be here. She said that she couldn't wait to go to our wedding later on." Lauren chuckled and smiled which made my heart flutter like crazy.
"I'm so in love with you." Lauren said softly.
I laughed and laid down so that Lauren and I were face to face laying on the bed.
"You're so pretty." I said and put my hand on Lauren's face.
"But you're beautiful." I couldn't take it anymore. I leaned in and kissed Lauren softly at first. But then I gently put my tongue in her mouth as we had a very passionate make out. I could do this for hours. Just kissing her.
Breathing became a problem and we had to stop. Lauren looked at me and got up.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"Wait one second. I'll be right back."
Lauren came back a few minutes later with a canvas.
"Okay it might not be that good. But I tried really hard on it." Lauren said nervously.
"What is it?" I asked curiously.
Lauren turned around the canvas and it was a painting of me and her. It looked exactly like us and I love the artistic side of Lauren. I sat up and walked towards her.
"It's beautiful. It's so good Lauren!" I said happily and kissed Lauren quickly.
"Do you like it?" Lauren smirked at me.
"I love it. How long did it take you and when the hell did you have the time to do this?" I asked Lauren.
"I started it a few months after we met. When you were all I could think about. I finished it the night after our first date when you dropped me off at my house." Lauren laughed at me because I was so in awe of the painting.
"Why did you wait this long to show me?" I questioned.
"Because I was nervous. I never had something worth as much as you and I didn't think it was perfect enough as you." God she's so adorable. "But now I realize that it looks just like us and it's from a photo we took together one time. Back when we didn't know much about each other. It just shows how much we've grown together."
"I love you." Was all I could say.
"I love you too." She reciprocated and kissed me again.
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Another World
FanfictionCamila was always an outsider. She never had any friends. She always ate alone and occasionally would get to eat lunch with the teachers to when she was getting tutored. Then, people started showing interest in Camila and they ended up really like h...